HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- CHINA IN THE 21ST CENTURY SERIES -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA:TRENDS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS* -- ABSTRACT -- OVERVIEW -- AMIXED PICTURE -- Selected Highlights from the State Department'sHuman Rights Report for 2007 -- The Birth of Civil Society -- Human Rights Legislation -- Other Policy Developments -- Recent Hopes and Disappointments -- The Sichuan Earthquake and Civil Society -- SELECTED HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE AREAS -- Persecution of Political Dissent -- State Control of Information -- Religious and Ethnic Issues -- VARIABLES OF CHANGE -- Central vs. Local Governments -- Rights Awareness and Legal Activism -- Social Unrest -- New Agents of Democracy? -- New Communications Technologies -- U.S. EFFORTS TO ADVANCE HUMANRIGHTS IN CHINA -- Openly Criticizing China -- Human Rights Dialogue -- Rule of Law and Civil Society Programs -- Public Diplomacy -- Internet Freedom -- Labor Rights -- Congressional-Executive Commission on China -- FURTHER READING -- APPENDIX -- PROFILES OF SELECTED IMPRISONEDDISSIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS[120] -- REFERENCES -- INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATIONCONTROL INTHE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA* -- ABSTRACT -- INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND USE IN CHINA[3] -- Censorship and Content Control of the Internet -- METHODS OF PRC INTERNET CENSORSHIPAND CONTENT CONTROL -- Legal Regulations -- Technical Methods of Content Filtering -- Cyber-Police, Punitive Action, and Self-Censorship -- U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT INPRC INTERNET CENSORSHIP -- Yahoo and Shi Tao Case -- U.S. GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO PROMOTEUNRESTRICTED INTERNET ACCESS IN CHINA -- Congressional Action -- ISSUES FOR U.S. POLICY -- REFERENCES -- CHINA AND FALUN GONG* -- ABSTRACT -- OVERVIEW -- BASIC DESCRIPTIONS AND MAJOR EVENTS -- What is Falun Gong? -- Formation and Organization -- Master Li Hongzhi.

The 1999 FLG Demonstrations andPRC Government Crackdown -- FALUN GONG ACTIVITIES UNDERGROUNDAND OVERSEAS AND CONTINUEDGOVERNMENT REPRESSION -- Interruption of Television Broadcasts -- Alleged Concentration Camps and Organ Harvesting -- Falun Gong Activities Overseas -- IMPLICATIONS FOR PRC POLITICS -- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS -- REFERENCES -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAWIN CHINA.HEARING BEFORE THECONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONON CHINA,ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS,SECOND SESSION, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. CHUCK HAGEL, A U.S.SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF NEBRASKA, CHAIRMAN,CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA -- OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JIM LEACH, A U.S.REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF IOWA,CO-CHAIRMAN, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVECOMMISSION ON CHINA -- STATEMENT OF JEROME A. COHEN, PROFESSOR OF LAW,NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW,NEW YORK,NY -- STATEMENT OF JOHN KAMM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THEDUI HUA FOUNDATION, SAN FRANCISCO,CA -- STATEMENT OF HON. SAM BROWNBACK, A U.S.SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS,MEMBER,CONGRESSIONAL- EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA -- STATEMENT OF MINXIN PEI, DIRECTOR, CHINAPROGRAM, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONALPEACE,WASHINGTON,DC -- STATEMENT OF XIAO QIANG, DIRECTOR, CHINA INTERNETPROJECT, THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM,UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY,BERKELEY,CA -- APPENDIX. PREPARED STATEMENTS -- Prepared Statement of Jerome A. Cohen, September 20, 2006 -- Prospects for Legislative Reform of the Criminal Process -- Supreme Court Efforts to RestrictApplication of the Death Penalty -- Disgraceful Handling of Some Recent Criminal Cases -- The Communist Party's Participationin Criminal Investigation -- New Restraints upon Lawyers -- The Immediate Future -- What Should We Do? -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF JOHN KAMM,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006.

Recent Developments in Dui Hua's Dialogue onHuman Rights with the Chinese Government -- Ministry of Justice Stops Accepting Prisoner Lists -- Dui Hua Responds -- A Window Closes, a Window Opens? -- Recommendations -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF MINXIN PEI,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF XIAO QIANG,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- The Rise of Chinese Blogosphere and IntensifiedControl Efforts on the Chinese Internet -- OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. CHUCK HAGEL, A U.S.SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA, CHAIRMAN,CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONON CHINA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES A. LEACH, AU.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM IOWA, CO-CHAIRMAN,CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. SAM BROWNBACK, AU.S. SENATOR FROM KANSAS,MEMBER,CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. STEVEN J. LAW, DEPUTYSECRETARY OF LABOR,MEMBER, CONGRESSIONALEXECUTIVECOMMISSION ON CHINA,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF FRANKLIN L. LAVIN,UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE,MEMBER,CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA,SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- INDEX.